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I have a feeling that things were taken a bit out of context – he was at a board meeting and was talking about how PR has changed from the day that Colonel Sanders openly used the N-word. But to publicly say the word was grabbing the third rail of political correctness. Still, I think it is being blown out of proportion – at least he owned up to it instead of lying about it – like most public figures would do.

Is anyone offended by the word “honky”? I never have been, I guess because I don’t know the etymology of the word. Maybe from honky-Tonk, or Hungarian immigrant workers that couldn’t speak English, or white guys that would honk their horns to attract African-American prostitutes.
I always laughed when George Jefferson or Fred Sanford said it.

Realme, I am in total agreement that he should have used the term “N-word”. But still, you can turn on a lot of rap and hip hop songs and hear the word blasted out over and over. I realize that might be construed as a different context, but if the word is offensive, it should be offensive in any setting (outside of literature in a historic context.)

the headlines are attention-seeking but that’s what the media does. the headline has to be the most controversial in order to get attention over other headlines about the same thing. I agree with Real, that’s just a word you don’t say…ever…but especially in a business meeting. If I were hanging with my friends I still wouldn’t say “hey did you know Kernel Sanders used to call black people n_______?” But I’d be more apt to say something stupid like that around friends than in a business meeting. I work for the state, I can’t imagine being in a work meeting and saying “Sanders calls black people n______”…it’s moronic.

Papa John used that example during a conference call with a PR firm who was trying to teach him to stop putting his foot in his mouth all the time. There’s also more to it than that.

From an article on Deadspin: “In June’s conference call, Papa was asked “how he would distance himself from racist groups online.” (Normal question to ask a pizza man.) Papa replied by complaining that “Colonel Sanders called blacks n——-s”—no one is quite sure where he got this from—and KFC never got in trouble. He also noted, for some reason, that where he grew up people used to kill black people by dragging them behind trucks. (Normal answer from the pizza man.)”

rick, you sure can decide whether or not to engage with people who use words that offend you. Let them know your list and if they choose to use them anyway, don’t engage with them. If you have to talk to them for work purposes, make sure to keep the subject about the actual work. You’re welcome.

I think this whole thing might blow up in John Morgan’s face. Morgan and Morgan obviously took this case for the publicity, but it is liable to make them look like such amazing idiots that their business might actually take a hit.

John Morgan spent most of the press conference stream of consciousness ranting about one-and-dones being exploited and ranting against the evils of the NCAA. He barely talked about the case at all. He also clearly doesn’t know that the one-and-done rule is an NBA rule which made him look like an ill prepared buffon. U of L admitted the hooker parties happened in their NCAA appeal. Their argument was “the hookers were cheap and we didn’t spend that much money, so we shouldn’t get in trouble.” Hancock and company have no case.

I haven’t seen their periscopes. However Ryan said his sons play loud music and basketball at all hours, and walk through people’s yards. Tell them to stop doing those things. None of those are particularly bad, or criminal offences, but they are easily stopped if you know they’re going to annoy your neighbors.

Oh wow, it is killing me to hear them talking about going to Lake Cumberland. Has probably been 6 years since I was last down there. Sure do miss it. I think I heard my boat whimpering at me when I was out in the garage the other night.

I am a redneck so I enjoy most kinds of auto racing, but there is no friggin’ way that I would want to sit in those concrete bleachers with the sun beating down on me in 98* heat. Mrs. RCF and my older daughter are both going to Forecastle this weekend, and there is no way I would want to sit out there in that mob in the heat either. I must be getting old…